Dangerous Quote by Garrett Hardin

We have lost sight of the dependence we have on nature in economics

— Tony Juniper

Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is…

— Carl Linnaeus

For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely on an…

— Thomas Piketty

It gives evolutionary biologists great status if they champion competition and the economists have to consult them. The economists have to consult the evolutionary…

— Greg Graffin

Economists create their own worlds. We're like little gods with our artificial economics, wanting to see what happens.

— Edward C. Prescott

“But if all maximizing models are really arguing is that “people will always seek to maximize something,” then they obviously can’t predict anything, which…

— David Graeber

“Economists are all too often preoccupied with petty mathematical problems of interest only to themselves. This obsession with mathematics is an easy way of…

— Thomas Piketty

My Prime Minister regards the economy as our highest priority and forgets that economics and ecology are derived from the same Greek word, oikos,…

— David Suzuki

We're facing a danger that economics is rigorous deduction based upon faulty assumptions. Science after science gets that way from time to time. When…

— W. Brian Arthur

We chose to do this work mathematically, which has the advantage of precision but is not always appreciated by readers. It is perhaps for…

— Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

Unlike physics, economists don't settle things. There seems to be plenty of room for different conclusions that are still accepted in the academy.

— Adam Davidson

Economics is a very dangerous science.

— John Maynard Keynes